13 [a]For the Jews’ Passover was at hand. Therefore Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 [b]And he found in the Temple those that sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and changers of money sitting there.

15 Then he made a scourge of small cords and drove them all out of the Temple with the sheep and oxen, and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables,

16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence: make not my father’s house, an house of merchandise.

17 And his disciples remembered, that it was written, (A)The [c]zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

18 [d]Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, What [e]sign showest thou unto us, that thou doest these things?

19 Jesus answered, and said unto them, (B)Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.

20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this Temple a building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

21 But he spake of the [f]temple of his body.

22 As soon therefore as he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he thus said unto them: and they believed the Scriptures, and the word which Jesus had said.

23 Now when he was at Jerusalem at the Passover in the feast, many believed in his Name, when they saw his miracles which he did.

24 [g]But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew them all.

25 [h]And had no need that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man.

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Footnotes

  1. John 2:13 Christ being made subject to the Law for us, satisfieth the Law of the Passover.
  2. John 2:14 Christ being ordained to purge the Church, doth with great zeal begin his office both of Priest and Prophet.
  3. John 2:17 Zeal in this place is taken for a wrathful indignation and displeasure of the mind, conceived of some naughty and evil dealing towards them whom we love well.
  4. John 2:18 Against them which so bind God to an ordinary calling which they themselves most shamefully abuse, that they will not admit an extraordinary, which God confirmeth from heaven, (and they although in vain would have it extinguished) unless it be sealed with outward and bodily miracles.
  5. John 2:18 With what miracle dost thou confirm it, that we may see that heavenly power and virtue, which giveth thee authority to speak and do thus?
  6. John 2:21 That is, of his body.
  7. John 2:24 It is not good crediting them, which stand only upon miracles.
  8. John 2:25 Christ is the searcher of hearts, and therefore true God.

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